NUOVO Stagione 1 12 ott 2026 · 47 min
Ep. 402: Plato Talks Homer: Hippias Minor and Ion (Part One)
On two short Platonic dialogues, written perhaps around a decade after Socrates' death in 399 BCE. Hippias Minor, where Hippias is (like many of Socrates' interlocutors) a Sophist. In this case, this means that Hippias presents himself as an expert in all sorts of practices (techne) including not only literary marvels but even making his own clothes. Do these things add up to virtue? Get more at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Visit partiallyexaminedlife.com/support to get ad-free episodes and tons of bonus discussion.
Momenti degli ascoltatori sulla linea del tempo Momenti: 0
0:00 47:02